Category: NAH

Looking for Club Bench Refs

Posted on by John Hayes

Now that the team list and most rosters have been finalized, we’d like to begin recruiting referees to schedule for the Bench Championship in a few weeks. Bruce and Joe will be there refereeing full time, but it would be great if we could get more non-playing referees to volunteer, and we encourage every team to provide one person to referee.

Also, you get paid $10/game to head ref, and $5/game to secondary ref!!!!

Email joe@nahardcourt.com!!! No google signup form this time, if you want to get paid and volunteer just reach out to Joe..

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Bench Championships Details

Posted on by John Hayes

It’s been a few weeks since NAs, and we are hoping you’ve decided as a club whether you are coming to Lexington for the NAH Bench Champs.

The deadline for registration is Sunday August 17th. After that spots will be handed down to the next clubs. If you aren’t planning to come, please also let us know asap, so we can help other clubs make plans.

Can the following clubs please let me (tournaments@nahardcourt.com) know if you are coming, and send fees of $300 via paypal to treasurer@nahardcourt.com.

The fees cover the building of a 3rd court, park permits, and the paying of refs. Main refs will get $10 per game, assistant refs will get $5.

Qualified
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
Portland, OR
Toronto, ON – confirmed, not paid
Austin, TX – confirmed, not paid
Saskatoon, SK
Tallahassee, FL
Milwaukee, WI
Boston, MA – confirmed, not paid
Lexington, KY
New York, NY – confirmed, not paid
Philadelphia, PA

Reserves (please also let me know if you would take a spot)
Ottawa, ON
Minneapolis, MN
Chicago, IL
Columbus, OH
Winnipeg, MB
Memphis, TN
Denver, CO
Columbia, MO.

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Qualifying Attendance Poll

Posted on by John Hayes

NAH is discussing the implication of current methods as well as original qualifying formats. We’d appreciate the feedback of North American players so we can gauge how important the progression of the qualifying series is to you.

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NAH Club Bench Championship

Posted on by John Hayes

NAH is proud to announce the first NAH Club Bench Championship.

The NAH Club Bench Championship will feature the top 12 clubs in North America, and will take place on the weekend of September 27/28th 2014, in Lexington, KY (Pending permits)

Lexington will be providing three top quality courts, and many years of organizing experience, which combined with NAH will produce the first North American Club Bench Champions.

Format

Teams will consist of players from one club. Each qualifying club can send as many players as they like, but only seven players may be dressed for each game.

The twelve clubs will be split into two groups of six, equally seeded. Each group will play a full round robin, five games each, over Saturday, and Sunday morning.

The two groups will play alternate games, with all six teams in the group playing at the same time. With breaks between games, and time for warm up, this means clubs will play for one hour, have ninety minutes break, followed by a short warm-up period.

Sunday afternoon will consist of a single elimination bracket for the top teams from each group.

Games will be 1 hour long.

Qualifying

The twelve clubs will be selected using the new NAH Points system. The eleven highest ranked clubs who elect to send teams, plus the host club, will qualify for the tournament.

Clubs will earn points based on their players performances in the NAH qualifiers, and NAHBPC.

Players will earn the following points for their clubs, with each player in a team earning points, rather than the team as a whole.

NAH Qualifiers:

All players: 1 point
7th: 2 points
5th: 3 points
4th: 4 points
3rd: 5 points
2nd: 7 points
1st: 10 points

NAHBPC:

All players: 2 points
17th: 3 points
13th: 4 points
9th: 5 points
7th: 7 points
5th: 10 points
4th: 15 points
3rd: 23 points
2nd: 35 points
1st: 50 points

Timeline

The rankings will be updated after each qualifier.

The top clubs, and waiting list will be announced during the prize giving of the NAHBPC.

The top eleven clubs will have two weeks to accept, and pay their registration, otherwise it will move to the next club on the list. Each further round will consist of three day periods where the next clubs can accept, until all 11 slots are full.

More details will follow as we approach September…

(photo credit to Kevin Walsh).

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NAH Ruleset v4.0 Approved by NAH Board and Club Reps

Posted on by Joe Rstom

Voting on the NAH Ruleset v4.0 is now complete, and votes have been tallied.

Before we announce the results I’d like to remind everyone in the community that this isn’t the end of Rules development. If you have constructive input to provide, after spending the time thinking through the changes critically, trying them out in tournaments or pickup, please e-mail kruse@nahardcourt.com or joe@nahardcourt.com. Plenty of great feedback was provided thanks to this club rep voting process, specific to the rules and more generally about the process. As we move more towards direct member voting, you will see specific rules or combinations of rules put to a vote, and possibly even a mechanism for anyone to introduce a polished rule to be voted upon. This infrastructure requires a huge time investment, and we are doing the best we can to put the pieces in place. More on that in the coming weeks.

The vote was sent out, by email to a mostly updated list of club reps.

Club Reps Emailed: ~110 (due to delivery failures, inactive clubs)
Respondents: 53

In favor of Adopting v4.0 for 2014: 47
Opposed to Adopting v4.0 for 2014: 5

1 Club Abstained. Non-Respondents are considered ‘yes’ votes, but it’s not necessary to include them.

The NAH Board voted unanimously in favor.

This ruleset has been Ratified, and we’ve made some minor language changes after receiving feedback from all these amazing Club Reps. From now on all changes will be kept in a version history over on the Rules page.

You can download v4.1 by clicking this link..